Mary Carmen Yamamoto is an independent consultant in agri-business. She is involved in projects relating to asparagus and various fruit, including the training of small banana farmers in good agricultural practices. Mary spent 2011 organising fruit conferences in northern Peru and in 2009-10 was a professor of administration and agri-business at Peru's UPC University. She graduated from Costa Rica's EARTH University with a degree in agricultural science in 2003 and is fluent in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.